An amazing video thank you - I visited the Cheynes Beach Whaling Station when still in operation in the 1970s - also knew Clive Scobie who was a whaling skipper at Point Cloates. Clive told me the Ches Stubbs story - also told me the story of when he (Clive) fell overboard with sharks around the moored whale. The crew quickly got a line to him and hauled him up but Clive reckons that experience of falling in among the sharks was the moment his hair turned grey!
Vim -- E. It's pronounced Vim-- ee After Vimy Ridge , a part of the front lines in WW1. The battle of Vimy Ridge where great Allied losses were incurred. Great Video. I love guys like this.
A friend of mine has what I think is an original C-37 aileron. Would you be able to connect me with someone who could confirm and possibly appraise it?
I knew Alex Coxall, RIP mate. After all these years, I often think about this accident. I went on to become a pilot, even flew a PA-31, as well as other types.
If you visit the New England Air Museum you can see the last remaining Burnelli plane. the CBY-3 Loadmaster. If you ask nicely they may even let you go inside!
I’ve read that submarines serve the best food in the navy, at least in the USN. Makes sense, for morale. Question: do submarines have ~loudspeakers, for mimicking whales or other sea life, as a sonic camouflage? Bubble-heads took that slur and OWN it, like the “black” rappers took an own the enword. Haha, good on them., they know they do the harder job. Read one or two “Confessions of” about sub life on TWZ a few years ago. Busy life from the get go, and not much privacy. “Quals” is about training for formal qualifications, afaik done by all on board, as they put in time and support the boat. But the fresh faces get pranked. Shipmate down aft in the propulsion spaces will know what to do, when a stressed fresh face appears and asks for a “machinist’s punch”. Haha yeah, but I fell for similar one time starting an oilfield job. Oof. Cheers, Sir. Good vid, and big ups to the speaker.
Ex brit submariner 80's, today I would vote to serve on an AIP boat, the nuclear types are still to large, still not silent, a large target to todays weapons. I was down south in the Falklands war before I joined boats, it was a surprise at the unwarrented ego these submariner's had.
This is a great book, its informative, and has a great reference section in the back of the book. However the book sadly misses out on supplying the much needed maps to show the location of the islands, There is a general map in the beginning but in my opinion it is not sufficient, I also noticed a lack of photographs too . I have also finished reading " 44 Days, the history of the 75 Squadron " I have found the same issue with this and the lack of photographs which in my view would better explain the books content ! Otherwise a great book and I enjoyed his other book, " the battle of the Bismark sea " I like michael's style of writing easy to read and follow the outline of the stories.
You’re making a huge assumption that the SQ B777 encountered Clear Air Turbulence - very unlikely in tropical latitudes. Since the Seat Belt sign was reportedly switched on immediately before the incident, this suggests an encounter with convective turbulence, I.e. a thunderstorm (VERY common in that area). Blaming increased encounters on climate change sounds suspiciously like woke nonsense - how about an increase in numbers of aircraft flying about?
I don’t feel at sorry for those passengers whom, in spite of the safety briefing, didn’t use their seat belts and ended up with bloodied heads stuck inside the overhead lockers with their feet dangling down where their laps should have been. If you defy safety briefings, do not expect to successfully claim against the airline. Do not expect travel insurance to cover you.
Brilliant exposition by the very detail-oriented David Archibald on how and why China is preparing for war. And what Australia should do to defend itself.
what a great story. there’s a few remnants of the US military around my neighbourhood here in Greenslopes in Brisbane. several large hospitals built at the time. we shall remember them 🙏❤️☝️
.......GOOD SHEILA............. Thought I heard “silk” in the vid, but saw “ rice paper” in the description. Sounds edible enough, and much more easily destroyed by eating. I hope her program office selected inks that would not harm, and test-ate the paper too. I wonder how many airmen ate their maps. I’d not heard of this. I wonder if it was used in the ETO. Sounds like something the spy trade would invent, or adopt. Cheers, Sir, from the home of the Edmonton Oilers, who just won their (best-of-seven) round against Vancouver, game seven. I played hockey from 6 years old until my mid twenties, and still get excited about it from time to time. But still have PTSD from a crowd crush on a Whyte Ave sidewalk last time the team was in the playoff final round: cops in riot gear with funky “non lethal” weapons, walking in the otherwise-closed road, yelling at the sidewalk crowd to not step off the curb. That wasn’t it, it was my verging-on-brutal elbows against others that haunts me. Oof. Now I’m hoping they go all the way, since I know to avoid those situations. ...Hope you Aussies choose Edmonton to support, whenever you discover the wonder that is NHL ice hockey. Cheers Sir!
Great footage. Highball was intended as an anti-shipping weapon, eventually 618 Sqn arrived in Australia. I suspect the RAAF weren’t impressed, as the squadron saw the war out at Narromine NSW - a LONG way from the sea!
Maybe its a naive question - why don't Robinson include a freewheeling sleeve of some kind at the point where the blade impacts the mast during a mast bumping scenario. Seems a cheap fix...
I remember seeing the film 'Mosquito Squadron' many years ago, when they rolled Highball mines into tunnels. I laughed at it, thinking it was just film bs, until a few years ago I read 'A Most Secret Squadron' by Des Curtis DFC, a history of 618 Squadron, which trained for doing exactly that.
As a volunteer, I walk past it regularly in Airspace at Duxford and take great delight in telling the story. The ‘Frightning’ would still live up to its nickname today.
I was waiting on a personal pizza when the bright young lad declared "I think we should be a Monarchy!" (USA) I explained to him my Canadian ancestral Uncle came from the Great White North to aid our rag tag team of renegades defying the Crown. And the results of his and so many other Patriots to be was why he was standing there serving me a pizza. In another country you would made into fertilizer. Or "voluntary" organ donor.
